Sweden Hands Over Pirate Bay Hacker to Denmark

STOCKHOLM - Sweden said Thursday it will hand over one of the world's best-known computer hackers, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, to neighboring Denmark where he is wanted for questioning on alleged hacking charges.

"It (the extradition) will take place on November 27," the prosecutor in charge of the case, Henrik Olin, told AFP, adding that Sweden was responding to an arrest warrant issued by Copenhagen.

In June, Danish police revealed that the 30-year-old Swedish hacker and co-founder of the file-sharing website, the Pirate Bay, is suspected of illegally downloading police files between April and August 2012.

At the time Svartholm Warg was living in Cambodia but was later arrested and deported to Sweden in connection with another cyber crime.

In 2009 he was convicted to one year in jail and ordered to pay criminal damages to the music and film industry for his part in founding the Pirate Bay website, one of the biggest file-sharing services in the world at the time.